A baby girl was recently born in Tranent, East Lothian and her arrival on the first of February, 2003, at 4.50am weighing in at six pounds and seven ounces must have especially delighted her statistician father.

No doubt he is now calculating the probability of his daughters birth on 1.2.03 04.50 with her birth weight of 6lbs 7ozs and analysing the statistical chance of that.